Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Series I Had A Hard Time Finishing
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meme created and hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will be a different Top Ten list. Everyone
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join and link up.
This week is: Ten Series I Had A Hard
Time Finishing: What series did I stop reading or struggled to finish
For this week I went with series that just to me were blah. These were
series that I was excited to read, where I read the first book and with some
even more books but couldn’t really get into it.
This was a weird one because I didn’t really
like Anita and her parts were hard to get through but its told from her point
of view. So you see why it was weird. Each book got better though not by much.
I started to like Anita then the author ruined it. She slowly killed everything
that was true to Anita and it took the series down. I haven’t read pass book 17
and the series is still on going so I guess someone likes it.
This was a series I have the first seven on
my shelves still. It had a concept that wasn’t new yet was at the same time, if
that makes sense. The first couple of books weren’t that good but they had
promise. Each book got better until it didn’t. I got so fed up that I put it
down and never picked it back up.
This series sounds good and I was looking
forward to reading it but nope. Just nope.
When I read the series there were only four
books, no spin off and there was only talk of a television show. I did not like
the series at all even though I finished it. L.J. Smith seems to be hit or miss
with me because I loved both her Night World books (where the hell is the last
book) and her Secret Circle series, there are series that I just don’t like.
And sadly this was one of them.
She has two entries on this list but what can
I say. I read the series and disliked them so much I took the books back.
Abbie has a series that I really enjoy and
the first books in her series I tend to really like but they never follow
through with the feelings from the first book. I started to get bored and
really annoyed with her characters, so much so that the book and rest of the
series becomes a turn off.
This series had promise. It was a fresh idea
and it was told well, I just had a hard time caring enough to keep going.
This wasn’t one for me at all. It was okay
though.
From the first chapter of the first book I
knew it wasn’t a series I was going to love but I at least thought I would enjoy
it more.
I used to live for books in the urban fiction
genre. It was actually a urban fiction book that made me loves books. So I’m
not sure why this series rubbed me the wrong way.
6 comments
I stopped reading Hamilton's Anita Blake series somewhere along the way too. I liked the series early on. I haven't read any of the other series you mention, other than trying the first book of The Vampire Diaries, which I hated. Another series I gave up on was Patricia Cornewell's Kay Scarpetta series. I had really liked that series for a long while.
ReplyDeleteGreat topic choice for this week! I hope you have a great rest of the week.
The only series you've mentioned that I've read is Uglies which is one of my favourites, but I read it so long ago I can't really remember if I struggled with it or not.
ReplyDeleteI think the only series I've given up on is the Morganville Vampires series because I wasn't impressed with the first book enough to want to continue on with the rest of the series.
I think I read to around book nine or ten in the Anita Blake series too? I actually did like Anita at first but I just hated everything the author did with the characters after a while.
ReplyDeleteMy TTT this week.
Yes, that was exactly why I stopped reading the Anita Blake series as well.
ReplyDeleteHere is our Top Ten Tuesday.
I liked the first Uglies book but everything went downhill from there!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/top-ten-tuesday-123/
Just before I started watching TVD on tv a friend of mine recommended the book - I read the first one and didn't like it. I do like the show, though.
ReplyDeleteLauren @ Always Me